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An Upsurge of Light
Adventures with St. John’s Wort
Many years ago — I was in my early twenties — I had a vision. It was a quiet one, a low-grade, garden-variety mystical experience. I didn’t change my name or walk to New Mexico on my knees, or anything like that. It was simply this: Despite appearances to the contrary, Heaven and Earth are coming together. That was my wording at the time. I could just as easily have said that the physical and non-physical worlds were merging. As I say, it was a vision, as opposed to a theological proclamation.
Light
My unspectacular vision of Heaven and Earth blended perfectly with one of the first spiritual/energetic teachings I ever received: the Earth and everything on it is rising in vibrational frequency, becoming less dense, more infused with light. Here, I mean light not as a metaphor, but as the living, intelligent, ever-present power and source behind everything. This Light, with a capital L, is referred to in every religious and mystical tradition.
Around the same time, I began having conscious experiences of Light. Over time, they radiated into my perception of life and helped me to understand some things I was experiencing in my inner world and seeing in the world around me. They explained something about the intense pace of life and world events all around me, matched by the accelerating rate of change in my own life. Fortunately for me, I was also running into teachers who were familiar enough with the phenomenon of the world’s rising vibration to guide me. They gave me tools for working with the Light.
I look back and see a longish, but unbroken, trail of threads and crumbs in my life, from the time of my first earliest Light experiences. If anything, my ability to appreciate the coming together of Heaven and Earth and what I’m calling an “upsurge of Light” has increased over the years. Meditative practices and my work in the field of energy healing have become my main tools for working with Light and meeting the changes that are coming about in this world.
St. John’s Wort: A Totem Plant for the Upsurge of Light
Along the way, I found a new, benevolent totem from the natural world: St. John’s Wort. I first knew of it as hypericum perforatum in homeopathy, good for the tiny nerves in sensitive places on your body, like your…
